title: Police: Hurrying! Helping! Saving! (Board Buddies)
author:  Patricia Hubbell 
description: Author Patricia Hubbell is the author of ten books of poetry for children, including <em>Boo! Halloween Poems and Limericks</em> as well as <em>Trucks: Whizz! Zoom! Rumble!</em> Her poems appear in numerous anthologies. She lives in Easton, Connecticut.<br /><br />Illustrator Viviana Garofoli was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she now lives with her husband and two daughters. She earned a fine arts degree from Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Pridiliano Pueyrredn and has illustrated more than 20 books. Recently she created the pictures for <em>My Big Rig</em> by Jonathan London.
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  Three long days drag by. I feel like I’m standing in slow motion while
  everyone is running in fast-forward around me. Rob and Britta are putting
  together amazing materials to wow the Stowe heirs. Dazzling marketing videos,
  brokerage tour concepts, and high-dollar-buyer party suggestions. Even a
  fucking slogan. They are brilliant, thank God.
  
  
  My brain is stuck.
  
  
  I’m going through the motions, wishing I could force myself to get my head in
  the game. I look at my phone again for the umpteenth time today. Not that I
  expect anything different, but Keeley still hasn’t called.
  
  
  She’s gone.
  
  
  I could track her down…but she has my number. If she wants me to find her,
  she’d tell me where to look. I feel antsy because I haven’t talked to her
  since the weekend. I even called Gus, the guy who owns the lousy sports bar.
  He couldn’t say if or when Keeley would be singing again. When we spoke, he
  sounded disappointed, too.
  
  
  “You okay, buddy?” Rob asks, briefca