"Sometimes the best thing you can do is take a step back and give yourself a chance to breathe." The essential six. That is how the people of Rosewood viewed the group of six teen girls. The only reason these girls became friends was because of Alison DiLaurentis herself. She brought them together, but now she's tearing them apart. They were told secrets make them closer...but that couldn't have been further from the truth. *I only own the rights to my characters, nothing Sara Shepard has created*