Disclaimer: Owns neither characters nor song Sk8er Boi by Avril Lavigne.

Warnings: Old School Avril Lavigne, Gender Bender, SoRoku


Sk8er Boi

By: Splintered


"He wanted her, she'd never tell
Secretly she wanted him as well."

-Sk8er Boy by Avril Lavigne


It was all Sora Leonhart's fault, Roxas thought. It was that stupid brunette's fault that his reign of anonymity at Destiny High was over. Ever since Leonhart started trailing him a month ago, other people had started noticing him and growing more and more forward as well.

"Hey, it's that Roxas kid that Sora likes!" someone exclaimed as Roxas tried to make his way to the cafeteria for his lunch break.

For Christ's sake, he couldn't even get to lunch without being noticed by someone anymore!

"Hm, I wonder if he'll go out with me if he won't go for Sora?"

"Really, Tidus, if this Roxas kid won't go out with Sora, then you have absolutely no chance! I mean, Sora's gorgeous and you're … "

Oh, how Roxas wished he didn't hear his name whispered or shouted or spoken everywhere he went. Maybe this is how Sora felt like too as the most popular boy in Destiny High? Perhaps Sora was also a secret recluse?

Nah, that brunette bastard probably enjoyed the attention too much! Roxas remembered how smug Leonhart was the last time he tried asking him out. Leonhart had promised to show him how to skateboard and play blitzball in the park. Knowing Roxas, the blond would probably fall flat on his face with both endeavors. Although Roxas was graceful on the ice, he was a klutz most of the time — a trait that puzzled his father Cloud greatly.

"How can you be clumsy and still be a figure-skater?" Cloud had asked incredulously. "Isn't that an oxymoron?"

"I don't know, Dad," Roxas had replied. "Not everyone is as cool as you."

And it was true. No one could match Cloud's cool-nothing-can-bother-me exterior. Roxas would have been sure Cloud was heartless if he wasn't Strife's son and seen his old man's affection and worry for him firsthand. Roxas could never forget how terrified Cloud was after he woke up from Seifer's beating. He had never seen his father look more vulnerable. And Roxas swore that Cloud would never feel like that again — not if he could help it.

But from the looks of the rest of Destiny High, they didn't share Roxas's convictions, especially as they chased after him squealing his name.

"I heard that he was the only one that ever turned Sora down!"

Yep, the student population of Destiny High would surely maim him if they kept this up — Roxas thought as he ducked into his favorite hiding spot within the boy's bathroom and locked himself in the handicap stall — especially now that Sora wasn't the only one who chased after him.


"Now he's a superstar, slamming on his guitar
Does your pretty face see what he's worth?"
- Sk8er Boy by Avril Lavigne


"Riku, why doesn't Roxy like meeeee?" Sora sniffed, watching the blond's head disappear into the boy's bathroom once again.

"Well, maybe if you didn't call him, Roxy… He's a guy after all," Riku replied.

"No, I tried calling him Roxas," Sora declared, "but he ignored me and I like how he blushes when I call him Roxy. It's cute. Roxy is cute and pretty. Why is Roxy so cute and pretty and why doesn't like me? Everyone likes me, Rikuuuuuuuuu!" Sora continued to whine.

Riku sighed, knowing Sora's love for pretty faces. And also knowing that Sora never dealt with much rejection before Roxas came along. And the idiot's solution to his constant rejections: to smile and get wasted on school property, no less. There certainly were perks to being king of Destiny High.

But for Riku, there were downfalls to being the king of Destiny High's best friend. Just telling you from experience, Sora was a whiny drunk. And a sloppy drunk. And overall, more annoying and aggressive and pessimistic than his usual arrogant self-assured self.

"Roxy is mine, Rikuuuuu! He's mine and I don't like how everyone else is looking at him and touching him and asking him out! Don't they see that he's mine!"

Possessive much? Riku sighed again, adopting the role a good best friend should. "Well, what are you going to do about it, Sor? He's alone in the boy's bathroom locked in the handicapped stall."

Sora grinned like a cat that just swallowed a canary. "I'm going to make sure he stays in the bathroom a whole lot longer," he declared.

Riku just hoped Roxas Strife was prepared for the monster he had just released in his best friend.


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