<div class="floatleft">(http://tattoomagz.com/wp-content/uploads/male-model-with-tattoos-trendmafia-online-magazine-34263.jpg)</div>Author McClanahan, or as his friends called him – Sage, had come from money. He was not the kind of kid that people would think would one day be a rising star in the world of Tattoo Art and he was defiantly not the kind of guy you would think to cut off all money flow to him from his parents at the age of 18 and move out, on that day. It was true; it was his parents who owned the two story city house that he and his friends now lived in, but it was the only thing that he had ever asked them for. It was the house that his Mother had taken him to as a child, before she had passed away. Sage had only been eight.<br/><br/>It was one of the many reasons when he and his best friend of three years had met Nik he had immediately reached out to her. He had been through depression for many years, pushing people away and not letting them in, it wasn’t until Mandatory Band class in seventh grade that he had finally let someone in. As a matter of fact, he had never expected to let Nikki in as much as he did over time, but by time he had realized, it was too late, he was stuck to her and the group of three had been formed.<br/><br/>All throughout high school Sage had trouble with his family, his father had remarried and the woman was far too close to his own age for comfort which was why as soon as he was of age he had left, asking only for the home that he had always loved to go to with his Mother as a child. In those last few months of high school he had worked a full time job on top of school, only graduating because of his friends and there help to drag him along.<br/><br/>Now he worked full time, holding up the bills and buying the food for the two people who were most important to him in the world. He would do anything for these two, and he had always loved them both in his own way. He made sure that Nikki had a roof over her head as she went to college and still got the both of them fed. He worked full time co-running a Tattoo Shop with his Uncle (mother brother) who had turned him onto Tattooing when he was in high school. He took in a good profet, but no more then what he made sure went back into the store. That was what the two had agreed on when they first started the business together.<br/><br/>It had been a long day for Sage though, he had been working a back tattoo for five hours straight that morning and when he got home after the work was completely he had set out his gear and turned on the TV at random as he cleaned up his gear, making the room smell with the cleaning chemicals as he sterilized all of his needles and his tattoo gun. Some short time after that he had fallen to sleep, not waking up until later on that evening; but only when one of the others came home.<br/><br/>((House: First Floor Entryway with stairs upstairs. Three doors lead off of it. The one next to the stairs leads to the guest toilet room, open archway to the right leads to the living room, and left archway leads into the dinner/kitchen area. A door in the back of the living room leads to Sage’s room which is the ‘master’ and has a bathroom connected. Upstairs tiny hallway with two doors. One on the right leads into Nikki bedroom and left leads into ___ bedroom. They have a conjoining bathroom in-between and both have a small balcony looking out to the city view on the street side of the house. ))