Disclaimer: I don't own any of this. Lynne Ewing is a great author and I don't want to take anything from her.

Author's Note: Okay, this happens AFTER book 9 (like right after her birthday party at Serena's) and during the time of book 10 (I'm in the middle of book 10). It starts from one character to another. It's different point of views. I'll try not to switch it too much. WARNING: I started this about one o'clock in the morning because I had a big writing urge but didn't know what to write about so here it is! A DOTM has really been on my mind.

Jimena Castillo walked out of Serena's house, Collin's arm around her waist. She loved the warmth of his body against hers but tonight it seemed as if he was holding something back, he along with her friends – Serena Killingsworth, Tianna Moore, Catty Turner, Vanessa Cleveland – were staring at her during the party but it wasn't a friendly type of stare…it was different but she couldn't explain it. She noticed Collin staring at her and she smiled, slightly. "Is there something I don't know?" she asked Collin.

He raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"

Jimena hesitated. "Forget it…" she mumbled as she began playing with the promise ring he had given her. "I should get going… It's getting late."

"Come back tomorrow?" he asked with a smile.

"Yeah." She kissed him on the lips and walked off and into her car. She pulled the keys from her pocket and put them in the ignition but didn't start the car. Jimena began to wonder why Serena had almost started to cry during her party. It couldn't have been because she was turning seventeen. What was so important about that? Just another year older. She shook it off and started the car and headed home.

Jimena walked into a dark house. Grandmother must be sleeping… she thought as she moved into the kitchen and turned on a light. She took a glass from the cupboard, opened the fridge, and poured herself a glass of milk. She walked to her room, set the glass down, and lay down on her bed. Her mind was telling her to remember something but forget something at the same time… Jimena concentrated but she couldn't figure out what was bothering her. "I should rest," she told herself.

She jumped off her bed, pulled off her clothes and changed into a pair of pajamas. She crawled into bed and looked her clock. It read 1:18 A.M. She hadn't realized that she had been partying all night. She sighed and rolled over and soon fell asleep.

Serena Killingsworth walked up to her room, not worried about the mess downstairs: the aftermath of the party. The guests were gone and that's all that mattered to her. She lay down on her bed and buried her face into her pillow. The tears were coming fast now. "She's forgotten everything…" she mumbled. "I thought it would be easy…but it's not… I thought we would all make the decision at the same time…"

It wasn't her fault, a voice inside her mind told her. Serena looked up to find Stanton looking back at her. She tried to wipe the tears from her eyes but they kept falling. Stanton sat next to her and cradled her in his arms. Serena soon pulled away.

"It wasn't her fault…" she said, looking at Stanton. "I know… It'll be weird without her."

"But it was her choice, Serena. You couldn't stop her."

It only makes us weaker to have one less Daughter… The Atrox will send its Followers after us now that we are weaker… she thought. She had forgotten that Stanton could read her mind but right now it wasn't important to her. She wanted her fellow Daughter of the Moon back. It would be different. It felt different already "You should go," she said to Stanton almost in a whisper. She knew that Stanton wanted to stay to comfort her but he felt that she needed to be alone. He left her with a kiss on her cheek.

Serena took off her clothes and threw on a pair of pajamas. She wiped her eyes with a tissue and crawled into bed. She understood now why Jimena couldn't remember anything past Sunday – she wasn't a Daughter anymore. It hurt Serena deep but she had to forget about it. They could still be strong with still four of them – they were when Tianna wasn't around. She signed and soon fell asleep.

"It's weird," Catty began saying to Vanessa and Tianna while in Kendra's car, "to think that Jimena is gone."

"Imagine how Serena feels," Tianna said.

"Yeah…" was all Vanessa could say. It would only be a year until she had to make a choice and she wasn't sure what that choice was.

"What are you girls talking about back there?" Kendra asked, stopping at a red light.

"Jimena," the girls said in unison.

"What's the matter?"

"She's no longer a Daughter of the Moon," Catty said.

"Since she's seventeen now she was able to choose a path to either remain here and forget that she had powers or turn into something else…" Vanessa explained. "She chose to forget."

"It's better though, girls. What if Jimena hadn't come to her own birthday party? You would have worried about her," Kendra said.

The girls looked at each other.

"We should talk to Maggie," Vanessa said in a low whisper. "I'm sure she was with Jimena when she made her decision."

"Yeah, we should talk to Serena though. Make sure that she wants to come with us," Catty added.

"I hope she's going to be okay," Tianna said as the car pulled into her driveway. She opened the car and crawled out of the car. "See you tomorrow." She shut the door.

Catty and Vanessa readjusted themselves as the car started moving again. They were quiet all the way to Vanessa's house, each of them pondering about Jimena.

"Maybe," Vanessa began, "we could try to talk to Maggie and ask her if she knows of any way we can get Jimena to remember."

"I don't think that's possible, Vanessa," Catty said.

"We could make it possible," she said. "Later." She shut the car door.

Like it? I wanted to try and get all the girls' reactions to Jimena not being a DOTM anymore. Please review! No flamers! .