Forgot to add your HP, apologies for that.
[3] As you get into the gas station building you see a cash register counter to your left, and three shelves runnning the length of the small building. You see a male and female bathroom. You can't make out any items as your eyes adjust to near total darkness.
Your health is 60
[3] You are a few steps behind the kid, you can't see anything in the building due to his body blocking the way.
Your health is 80
Vera, hitting her stride, manages to push her way past Shade, entering the interior first. [1] In her rush, she slips on a newspaper page on the floor, falling face-first right onto the tiles.
Vera is now prone.Startled, but still focused, Shade looks around for any weapons he can use. [6] At one end of the middle shelf, he sees
a tire iron, partially hidden underneath the bottom of the shelf. He picks it up, and turns around to look at Vera, still on the floor.
You are at 60 HP.
[4] You see the middle shelf where you got your tire iron, almost completely bare and stripped of any actual items. There's only a packet of pringles on its side, and a lighter left near the middle. You definitely got the best weapon from that shelf, not sure about the others.
You are at 75 HP
[4] You can tell, looking up from where you hit your head, that the kid is holding a tire iron. Shit. There's probably nothing else from the middle shelf that you can use, otherwise the kid would have taken that instead.