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Nicola smoothed the blue satin fabric of her dress across her knees.That was exactly how she was feeling.
    Georgio looked at his watch and glanced out the window of the helicopter.
    â€œWell, I don’t know what my esteemed colleagues would think about this, but really, what difference will a few minutes make now that I’ve tracked you down?! So, how about a quick dip? I find nothing relaxes me more than a refreshing swim.What do you say?”
    Nicola didn’t quite know what to say. Swimming was actually the very last thing on her mind at the moment. Georgio was certainly very odd.
    â€œCome on!” He unbuckled his seat belt. “Last one in is a rotten egg!”
    To Nicola’s horror, Georgio threw open the door of the helicopter and flung himself out into the cold air.

CHAPTER 7
    In Nicola’s house nobody was allowed to swear, except in times of great stress, when they were allowed to say the word frizzle .This was their own private Berry family swear word, which didn’t upset anyone.
    â€œFRIZZLE!” exclaimed Nicola. “FRIZZLE, FRIZZLE!”
    She tapped Plum on the shoulder. “Georgio just jumped out of the helicopter!”
    She waited for a suitably horrified reaction.
    â€œOh, has he?” Plum turned her head slightly. “Typical! Well, why don’t you have a quick dip, too? It will do you good before your mission.”
    â€œI beg your pardon?” said Nicola faintly.
    â€œWhat’s taking you so long?” Nicola looked down and saw Georgio gazing up at her. He was leaning on the floor of the helicopter with both arms, just like it was the edge of a swimming pool, his long legs dangling behind him in the air.
    â€œYou must come in! The temperature is perfect.”
    â€œAre you crazy ?” Nicola felt quite petrified. She was trapped in a helicopter with two lunatics.
    Georgio looked at her blankly. “Have you never been cloud-swimming before?”
    â€œNo. I have never been cloud-swimming before,” Nicola spoke slowly and distinctly, like she spoke to Great-Aunt Annie, who was very deaf and a little bit crazy.
    â€œWhy didn’t you say so?” cried Georgio. “Everyone needs a little push the first time.”
    He hauled himself back into the helicopter, unbuckled Nicola’s seat belt, lifted her up under the arms, and held her outside the helicopter.
    â€œHave fun, Nicola!” cried Georgio—and he let her go.
    â€œAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!”
    Nicola’s eyes were squeezed shut in sheer terror as she plummeted through the air.
    Once, she’d fallen out of a tree in her backyard and had broken her arm.That had really hurt, but she guessed this was really, really going to hurt.
    Any second now she would slam straight into the ground!
    Any second now she would be shattered like a broken cup. Any second now.
    Actually, it did seem to be taking quite a long time.
    And it didn’t really feel like she was falling. It felt more like she was floating.
    She risked opening one eye and then immediately opened the other one.
    The most amazing thing had happened! The skirt of her dress had puffed out like a shiny blue parachute, and she was bobbing gently in a mysterious, swirling world of wispy white fog.
    I’m in the middle of a cloud, she thought. I’m swimming in a cloud!
    â€œWatch out below!”
    Nicola looked up to see Georgio poised on the edge of the helicopter. Suddenly he leaped out with both knees gripped close to his chest.
    â€œWhoopeee!”
    It was exactly the way Sean jumped into a swimming pool. Nicola hated it when he did that because he landed with a splash like a tidal wave and water went up her nose. She always got right out of the pool and did one straight back at him.They called it “having a battle of cannonballs.”Their mom called it “trying to drown each other.”
    It turned out that the same thing happened in a cloud as in a swimming pool. Georgio