stop unwanted competition

I've got a friend who also draw like me but we've got this unspoken rivalry on who draws better. It's honestly making me feel awkward so how to stop it? Without talking to her abt this matter? I dont want to take the first step bc I'm afraid that she'd be like, " I didn't know we were having this "competition" yet it was clear as day that she does know. I've been complimenting her art to show that I'm a friend and not a rival. She even far as go and read BJ Alex just so she could draw the characters so she could slap me that fact that she knows how to draw them. I've complimented her Alex, to you know, support her. But it was clear to me that she didn't in fact read it bc she asked me how many chapters they were and I was confused bc as a reader, u could see how many ch are there. So even though I was confused, I told her how many they were and she said, "oh, I'm on ch 56". I didn't say anything bc I didn't want to let her know that I caught her in 4K bc that'd only make things worse. So yeahhhhh how to stop this rivalry? ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ