Well, of course she's heard of him. Everybody has heard of the boy who has won East High it's third state basketball championship in a row. You can't go to school and not see a 'We love you Troy' sign somewhere in the prestigious education center. That's how it is, that's how it's always going to be.
It doesn't help that the one girl he wants is her. She's out of his league. She's smart, talented, stunning..he doesn't deserve her. She deserves someone who isn't afraid of being hiself because he's afraid of being made fun of.
He's not all about basketball. He's much more than that. Underneath the jersey is someone who loves art. Someone who can play the piano and write and sing a little bit. But nobody can know that. To his school he's Troy Bolton: Basketball star and the definition of how a jock is supposed to act. He can't even look at himself in the mirror without wondering who he is. How can be interested in a girl who know's exactly what she needs when he doesn't even know what he needs just to survive highschool.
It's not like he hates basketball. It's his one thing he knows is right about his life. The feeling he gets when he shoots the winning basket, that adrenalin rush. He lives for that. But he doesn't want to get famous for it. He didn't think when he picked up that ball he would have his own fan club. He just wanted to play. To play the game he loves. All this crap that goes with it is making that feeling go away. He can't loose the last of himself. If he looses that, he won't be able to find his way back.
That's why she deserves more. She's confident in everything she does. She doesn't let anything get in the way of what she wants. She deserves someone who is just like her. Someone who can live up to that perfect girl. He could have any girl he wants. But the one he wants is the one he can't have.
She's freakin' class president. She's powerful. She's beautiful. She's not fake. Like the girls who wear too much make-up and don't leave much to the imagination in their choice of clothing. She doesn't need any of that for people to notice her. She doesn't let the little things in life get to her. He wishes he could be like that.
He admires so much about her. How she can keep a smile on her face when her boyfriend of two freakin' years broke up with her to go out with some college girl. How she apoligized to him that she couldn't be more. She feels like she should be more. That's what pushes her. She thinks she needs to be perfect when in reality she already is.
That boy was so stupid to do that to her. He wishes he could of went out with her for two years, for two minutes if that means he could talk to her. To get to know her. To really get to know her. Like her favorite color, or even her messed up cat who thinks her favorite blanket is his girlfriend. He doesn't care. Just to talk to her. He would of never broke up with her. It's that guy who should be apologizing. She was nothing but perfect and he couldn't see that.
Besides he would just end up breaking her heart anyways. She doesn't need that. She's just to good for that. She's to good for anybody.
No girl, no person has ever caught the heart of Troy Bolton. And the one who has doesn't even know.
And he doesn't know that she feels the exact same way about him.