Xavier "X" Smith

Xavier Curtis "X" Smith is the main protagonist of the 2005 comedy-drama film Roll Bounce. "X" is the leader of the Garden Boys from the south side of Chicago. He is talented roll skater who is struggling with accepting the death of his mother and had developed strained relationship with his father, Curtis. "X" is the rival of Sweetness for Naomi's love. "X" is portrayed by rapper Bow Wow, who also played Calvin Cambridge in Like Mike.
==Biography==
===Prior 1978===
"X" was born on the south side of Chicago in 1960s to Chicago Airline Engineer Curtis Smith and his wife Kathy. "X" had close relationship with his mother, as Curtis descripted it Kathy was like his best friend. On his 13th birthday, Kathy bought "X" a pair of roller skates and at some point give a neck piece that said Mom's #1 Skater. "X" at some point in his childhood met Naomi Phillips, who would become a close friend of his, and the friendship would later blossom in into a romance. "X" enjoyed roller skating at the local roller disco Palisade Garden Skating Rink or the Garden with his friends Junior, Boo, Naps and Mixed Mike. In 1976, "X" won the 1st place trophy in the freestyle roller skating completion. In 1977, 2 weeks before Christmas, Kathy died of a heart condition. The death of his mother hurt "X" greatly and strained his relationship with his father. "X" keep the roller skates that Kathy give him, even though they're falling apart. "X" tells his younger sister Sonya, who was too young to remember her, about their mother.
===1978===
In the summer of 1978, the Garden is closing down and after "X" and the others spend their last day at the Garden they believe their summer is ruined. When Boo suggests that they go up to the Sweetwater Roller Skating Rink on the north side "X" is against it. 
When "X" sees the streetlight go on, he rushes home. When gets home however, Sonya tattles on him for him being late and Curtis then scolds "X" for not being home on time and tells him to step up. One week after the Garden closed down, after delivering papers and avoiding some mischievous kids who like to throw water balloons at him, "X" meets his new neighbor an awkward girl named Tori Turner, whose attractive divorced mother, Vivian, he saw when was late taking out the trash, and becomes friends with her.
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